SAS HOW-To?

[Diesel_brad]

Is there one? With a parts list and what needs to be done?

I am sick of the Torsion bars NOT being able to take the weight of my 450-500lb plow and the tires rubbing. I am NOT looking to lift it to the moon, just trying to match the chevy rear springs and run 265s on 8" wheels with NO clearance issues.

04, 4wd, 4.0, 5spd, supercab. Edge

 

[Surrey]

Its not quite that simple, it takes a bit of figuring what you wanna do, because that helps determine what you need.

For instance what axle to pick. Coil or Leaf. the list goes on...

What there is around here is a LOT of builds involving a SAS, so go look through some.

A good place to start could be the Truck Of The Month Winner in the top left corner.

 

[1986fordranger]

depending on your application you might want to look into some timbren's, instead of a SAS

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

depending on your application you might want to look into some timbren's, instead of a SAS

Exactly what I was thinking. They have awesome products, that work very well.

 

[Diesel_brad]

Thanks for the input guys.

I already have timbrens and they are not cutting it

As for the truck of the month. that is WAY bigger than I want to go and I sure as hell do not need a fullsize 44 cut down

I was thinking keeping the truck as LOW as possible(2" over stock)
Coil springs
And if there is someway to retain the Front ABS

I guess I am looking for a Jeep axle, cherokee, wrangle, Grand, etc

But other than that, there are SO MANY threads on SAS I read for over 2 hours and came up with no real answers other than the jeep axle

 

[brinker88]

If you want to keep it simple, go with a cherokee Dana 30 (without the center axle disconnect and with ABS ). Use ranger coils to keep the suspension fairly stiff due to you plowing with the truck and not offroading with it. Use the y-link radius arm set up (build it yourself) and use the stock steering. You may have to splice the t.r.e at the pitman arm into your stock cherokee steering.

^ That axle is almost a bolt on affair. The only real welding you would need to do is your radius arm mounts at the frame (build a set of bolt on ones) like mine and the track bar mount at the frame.

Here's my bolt on radius arm mount I made:

 

[Diesel_brad]

Well since I have a-arms and torsion bars, Nothing is going to be a bolt in deal

I guess I could live with the earlier axle with no abs and actual locking hubs

 

[brinker88]

Well since I have a-arms and torsion bars, Nothing is going to be a bolt in deal

I guess I could live with the earlier axle with no abs and actual locking hubs

You could use ballistic Fabrication coil buckets. You would have to sleeve your frame for a steering box though. I didn't even think to check the year of your truck.

 

[MastuhWaffles]

It's just hard to find stuff for torsion bar setups, usually the items out there are much more expensive and not very common. The nice thing is you can crank them but if you want to do some real work with them, you got some big steps to take.

 

[Diesel_brad]

It's just hard to find stuff for torsion bar setups, usually the items out there are much more expensive and not very common. The nice thing is you can crank them but if you want to do some real work with them, you got some big steps to take.

Exactly. I have the #1 torsion bars CRANKED and timbrens. But with the plow, the tires rub. Hell the tires even rub with no plow if I pull into a driveway faster than 2mph

 

[legoms013]

2" body lift will solve the rubbing. None of your other complaints but at least it wont rub.

Cheap

Fast

Easy

No fab work.

It will be hard to put a solid axle under there and keep close to stock height or slightly higher. Just not a whole lot of room

 

[Diesel_brad]

What is the Minimum about of lift a SAS would give me. I could live w 4" and 285s or 33s

 

[Surrey]

You could probably build it pretty close to stock... A stock Jeep sits pretty low, and your going to use one of their front ends right?

 

[brinker88]

I think you'd be okay with 4". It WILL be tight though. You'll have to get creative with the track bar I'm sure.

 

[982WDRanger]

Hey, I hear ya on not having what you want out o your rig. I just did an SAS in May. Read my build thread, give you an idea of what you will need and how much work your looking at to be doing.